A MOTHER-OF-THREE has been left scarred for life after falling into a fire pit. Alexa Osterman, 43, suffered 60 per cent burns to her body when she fell asleep at a party. She woke up in hospital after being in a coma for six weeks.
Alexa, from San Diego, US, doesn’t remember how she fell into the bonfire and is still searching for answers. Now she’s speaking out to raise awareness for other burns survivors . Alexa says: “Being burnt was the worst time of my life.
Read more on burns “I’ve never known pain like it. “But I survived and am fighting on.” On July 4, 2020, Alexa attended a party with her ex-husband and children.
When she arrived, she was handed an alcoholic shot which she drank. Most read in Health Over the next two hours, she took pictures of the partygoers and chatted with various guests, enjoying a couple of drinks. In the early hours of the next morning, she woke up on the homeowner’s porch.
Alexa says: “I had no idea how I got there. “The place was deserted and I couldn’t get back in the house, despite knocking on the front door and calling friends on my phone.” She noticed the open fire pit in the garden was still glowing, and feeling chilly in her linen dress, she added another piece of wood and sat in a chair nearby.
Soon, Alexa fell asleep. The next thing she remembers was waking up in Legacy Emanuel Medical Centre, Portland. She’d been in an induced coma for six weeks.
NO MEMORY At first, Alexa thought she’d been in a car accid.